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Bhagavas 5:4:86-88
him thus: 'O Gautama! there arose, in your state of interval between two meditation sessions, such resolve that was internal, recollective, wishful and mental ...... and you immediately approached me; is it so, O Gautama? Yes, it is so. Then, go Gautama! these gods themselves will give answer of these queries
of yours in such form. 5.87 tae nam bhagavam goyame samaņenam bhagavayā mahāvīrenam abbhanunne
samāne samanam bhagavam mahāvīram vamdai namamsai, jeneva te devā teneva pahärettha gamaņāe. Then, thus permitted by the Ascetic Lord Mahāvīra, Lord Gautama offered homage and obeisance to the Ascetic Lord Mahāvīra and resolved to repair
to the place where those two gods were abiding. 5.88 tae nam te devā bhagavam goyamam. ejjamānam pāsamti, păsitta
hatthatutthacittamāna namdiyā pīimaņā paramasomanassiyā harisavasavisappamānahiyayā khippāmeva abbhutthemti, abbhutthettā khippāmeva abbhuvagacchamti jeneva bhaugavam goyame teneva uvāgacchamti jāva namamsittā evam vayāsi-evam khalu bhamte! amhe mahäsukkāo kappão mahāsāmānão vimāņão do devā mahiddhiyā jāva mahānubhāga samanassa bhagavao mahāvīrussa amtiyam paubbhūyā. tae nam amhe samanam bhagavam mahāvīram vamdāmo namamsāmo, vamdittā namamsittā manasā ceva imāim eyārūvāim vāgaranāim pucchămo---kai nam bhamte! devānuppiyānam amtevāsīsayāim sijjhihimti jāva amtam karehimti? tae nam samune bhagavam mahāvīre amhehim munasā putthe umhum manasă ceva imum eyārūvarn vāgaranam vāgarei-evam khalu devānuppiya! mama satta amtevāsīsayāim jāva amtam karehimti. tae nam amhe samanenam bhagavaya mahāvīrenam manasā ceva putthenam manasā ceva imam eyārūvam vāgaranam vāgariyā samānam bhagavam mahāvīram vamdāmo namamsāmo jāvu pajjuvāsāmo tti kattu bhagavam goyamam vamdati namamsamti, vamdittā namamsittā jāmeva disam paubbhūyā tāmeva disam padigayā. Then, those two gods found Lord Gautama, advancing towards them. Having found him, being happy, pleased, composed, delighted and beatified, and being excited with excessive joy, they quickly stood up, and having stood up, moved forward to welcome him. They reached the place where Lord Gautama had reached ...... up to having offered obeisance, they addressed him thus—"Indeed, O Lord! we, the two gods, possessed of great fortune...... up to great power (as in 1.339), appeared before the Ascetic Lord Mahāvīra, from Mahāsāmāna Vimāna of Mahāśukra Kalpa. We offered homage and obeisance to the Ascetic Lord Mahāvīra and mentally put him the query_How many hundred of your disciples, O Lord! will be liberated (as in 5.82) ...... up to put an end to the sufferings?' The Ascetic Lord Mahāvīra, thus mentally asked by us (the two gods), mentally replied us thus-'0
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